by Irene Travis, editor of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science

This issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science is devoted to coverage of the ASIS Annual
Meeting, which was held in Washington the first week in November. It was very lively and quite well attended. In addition to news of awards and scenes of riotous living from SIG/CON and elsewhere, we are fortunate to be able to
bring you other highlights. The coverage includes Eugene Garfield's forthright inaugural address from the Annual Business Meeting, track overviews and the ASIS Award of Merit winner's speech. Future issues will feature other
material from SIG presentations. The editor is deeply grateful to the contributors, who graciously met a totally unreasonable deadline.

A further word is required about the track overviews. As many of you will recall from the
preliminary program or from the meeting itself, this year's conference was divided into five tracks. Speakers introduced each track at the beginning of the conference and provided some further insight at the end. Given the short
deadline and considerable latitude from the Editor, the resulting articles vary somewhat in their approach. For instance, some speakers reproduce their opening remarks and some take a retrospective view; some include more
information about actual presentations than others. Each in its own way, however, is rewarding reading. The five tracks and speakers are